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The Etched City

The Etched City, published by Prime Books and TOR UK, is a fantasy about exile, love, and transformative magic.

Have you seen a split cranium, growing flowers like a window box? I saw that, a mere hour ago.

Fleeing the ghosts of their past, a healer and a killer escape from the ruined Copper Country to the city of Ashamoil. But as they salvage new lives from the debris of the old, they will discover that the ghosts of the past are also the ghosts of the future.

When I came to this city, I would have agreed with anyone who said there was little mystery left in the world. But in you, madam, first in your image, then in your living self, I saw the allure of something as far away and as secret as the stars.

As comic and tragic destinies play out, art will infect life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles will bloom.

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